�Snowclone�
The moment I saw the word �Snowclone� I said to myself �Hello!� (This is evidence of a Split-Personality, and something which unnerves strangers).
I recall seeing a poster advertising �Schizophrenia�, and I thought to myself: �I have half a mind to go and see that film!�
I had said �Hello!� because, in my mind�s eye, (the English have three eyes), I was visualising the American musical �Carousel� (�Roundabout�) by Rodgers and Hammerstein (Roget and Hammerstone).
There is a line in it: �Hello, Mister Snow!� Of course, there isn�t just one line of dialogue, there are also other lines, but I assumed that you would realise that.
In the theatre, everything is false.
�La Boh�me�: you see an 18 stone soprano, Mimi, and the tenor is singing �Your tiny hand is frozen�. (Scottish Opera sing: �Yer wee hond�s cauld�).
�The Mikado�: �Three little Maids from School� and one of girls is pregnant.
�Lilac Time� (�Das Dreim�delhaus�): the composer Franz Schubert, from Vienna, speaks with a Cockney accent! The soprano lead persists in referring to him as �Skoo-bart�.
These inaccuracies, and many others, I have seen and noted.
I remember �Carousel� because Carrie Pipperidge wants to marry a fisherman, Enoch Snow. It is musically impossible to write a song called �When I marry Carrie Pipperidge�, so the song became famous as �When I marry Mr. Snow�.
The beautiful Carrie Pipperidge wants lots of children, (�When the Children are Asleep�): but Enoch Snow wants �A great big Fleet of Little Boats�. All the men in the audience just shook their heads in disbelief.
At the end of the show, Mr. and Mrs. Snow have a family of about 20 identical children --- clones, all made out of cardboard!
I dare not make any remark, for fear of censorship!
In that production of �Carousel�, there was not just one �Snowclone�, there were 20.
�Snowclone� = �Cardboard Cut-Out�.
LES
